Distant Reader - subject-prerogativeRoyal-freebo

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-24 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader zip2carrel process, and the input was a Zip file locally cached with the name input-file.zip. Documents in the Zip file have been saved in a cache, and each of them have been transformed & saved as a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 35 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 844,514 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 24,128 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 88. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

king, parliament, de, kings, may, great, will, made, law, one, people, shall, england, power, commons, page, many, laws, time, much, yet, without, first, now, might, lords, make, henry, year, ad, house, good, well, part, men, god, common, man, must, lord, also, non, per, every, right, kingdom, us, like, never, reason

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Investigatio jurium antiquorum et rationalium Regni, sive, Monarchiae Angliae in magnis suis conciliis seu Parliamentis. The first tome et regiminis cum lisden in suis principiis optimi, or, a vindication of the government of the kingdom of England under our kings and monarchs, appointed by God, from the opinion and claim of those that without any warrant or ground of law or right reason, the laws of God and man, nature and nations, the records, annals and histories of the kingdom, would have it to be originally derived from the people, or the King to be co-ordinate with his Houses of Peers and Commons in Parliament / per Fabianum Philipps., Rights of the kingdom, or, Customs of our ancestors touching the duty, power, election, or succession of our Kings and Parliaments, our true liberty, due allegiance, three estates, their legislative power, original, judicial, and executive, with the militia freely discussed through the British, Saxon, Norman laws and histories, with an occasional discourse of great changes yet expected in the world., and A remonstrance of the most gratious King Iames I. King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. For the right of kings, and the independance of their crownes. Against an oration of the most illustrious Card. of Perron, pronounced in the chamber of the third estate. Ian. 15. 1615. Translated out of his Maiesties French copie..

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

king henry, king edward, roman non, common law, th year, early english, english books, books online, per annum, lords spiritual, magna charta, king john, common people, domini regis, third estate, page images, regni nostri, de la, william de, king charles, queen elizabeth, creation partnership, noble ven, text creation, king richard, thousand pounds, must needs, le roy, early works, absolute power, great seal, king james, ever since, great britain, great charter, mean time, let us, french king, right reason, every one, many times, every county, matthew paris, great councel, edward coke, sir edward, one hundred, great men, great councels, take away

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Anglo-tyrannus, or the idea of a Norman monarch, represented in the paralell reignes of Henrie the Third and Charles kings of England, wherein the whole management of affairs under the Norman kings is manifested, together with the real ground, and rise of all those former, and these latter contestations between the princes, and people of this nation, upon the score of prerogative and liberty. And the impious, abusive, and delusive practises are in short discovered, by which the English have been bobbed of their freedome, and the Norman tyrannie founded and continued over them. / By G.W. of Lincolnes Inne. Englands present distractions. Paralleld with those of Spaine, and other forraigne countries, with some other modest conjectures, at the causes of the said distempers, and their likeliest cure. / Written by a loyall subject to His Majestie, and a true servant of the Parliament, in vindication of that aspersion cast upon them, for declining His Majesties royall prerogative, or seeking to confine it to limits. By H. G. B. L. C., and Royalty and loyalty or A short survey of the power of kings over their subjects: and the duty of subjects to their kings. Abstracted out of ancient and later writers, for the better composeing of these present distempers: and humbly presented to ye consideration of his Ma.tie. and both Howses of Parliament, for the more speedy effecting of a pacification / by Ro: Grosse dd: 1647.

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

king, parliament, laws, power, people, lords, law, statute, pope, henry, england, commons, church, lord, kingdom, house, crown, tcp, subjects, state, princes, prince, god, english, court, yorke, writ, world, roman, nations, nation, majesty, london, lands, government, france, estates, empire, edward, duke, county, charter, barons, act, william, trade, soveraign, sheriff, royall, richard

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be king, and The forme of government of the kingdome of England collected out of the fundamental lawes and statutes of this kingdome : wherin is manifested the customary uses of the kings of England upon all occasions, either of marriage, peace or warre, to call their peeres and barons of the realme to be bartners [sic] in treatizes, and to give their judicious advice : the state and security of the whole kingdome depending upon such counsells and determinations : likewise the names of the kings and the times when such Parliaments were called, and the acts that passed upon those and the like occasions : Henry I, Iohn, Henry 3, Edward I, Edward 2, Edward 3, Richard 2, Henry 4, Henry 5, Henry 6, Edward 4, Henry 7, Henry 8 : published for the satisfaction of all those that desire to know the manner and forme of the government of the land, and the fundamentall lawes of the kingdome. is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

kings, time, people, power, part, year, ad, man, men, king, others, reason, subjects, times, things, words, way, hath, quod, text, thing, none, cause, day, years, nothing, place, doth, case, manner, money, person, divers, laws, end, life, right, self, use, name, order, persons, cap, parliaments, force, page, p., matters, consent, answer

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

be, is, was, have, were, had, are, did, made, been, being, do, said, make, take, done, come, give, granted, called, taken, say, having, given, put, according, sent, found, find, let, see, brought, set, came, has, know, think, concerning, used, held, learned, gave, thought, believe, hath, hold, read, answered, making, left

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

king, parliament, de, law, england, commons, page, laws, lords, henry, god, house, lord, e., kingdom, c., edward, pope, prince, hath, 〉, church, princes, kings, anno, london, france, statute, 〈, bishop, john, crown, ◊, power, government, earl, court, sir, regis, l., h., william, cum, reign, common, act, est, regni, english, state

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

his, it, their, they, he, them, our, i, him, we, you, us, my, themselves, himself, her, your, me, its, she, thy, theirs, one, thee, ours, vp, mine, itself, whereof, yours, ye, au, myself, non, ian, f, ''s, vnto, ourselves, je, ce, ●, yourself, yee, y, worthey, unking''d, u, toutz, tollit

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

other, great, such, many, same, own, more, first, good, much, common, little, whole, most, true, old, non, present, better, former, new, like, late, ancient, roman, third, several, saith, last, -, greater, least, free, certain, next, particular, necessary, second, best, long, due, full, small, greatest, large, high, able, few, right, general

not, so, then, as, now, more, only, well, also, very, much, never, ever, yet, most, therefore, up, thereof, before, out, again, too, there, long, here, first, thus, onely, rather, away, together, even, no, otherwise, all, in, therein, afterwards, often, far, at, just, sometimes, especially, over, likewise, still, down, enough, once

Next steps

There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.

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